Selections let you isolate part of a layer to work on without affecting the rest of the layer.…To show you what a selection looks like I'm going to select one of the simpler…Selection tools in the toolbar, the Rectangular Marquee tool, which is used to…make rectangular or square selections.…I'll move into the image and create a rectangular selection by clicking in this…pane of glass and dragging toward its bottom right corner.…The animated dashes that you see are called marching ants, they represent the…boundary of my selection.…

Now whatever I do to the image will affect just the selected area on…the selected layer.…I have the window layer selected in the Layers panel which contains the photograph.…There are many things that I can do inside of a selection.…As just one example, I can fill the selection with color.…To do that, I'll go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen, I'll choose…Fill Selection, and that opens the Fill layer dialog box.…First, I'll choose a color with which to fill the selection.…

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3/12/2012

In this course, author Jan Kabili introduces the photo organizing, editing, and sharing features of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, the less expensive version of Photoshop that’s ideal for casual photographers who want to achieve professional results. The course covers importing, organizing, and finding photos with the Organizer. It explains how and when to use each of the editing workspaces—from the simple Quick Fix and Guided Edit workspaces to the Full Edit workspace for enhancing your photos—including making photo corrections, retouching, compositing images, and adding text. The final chapter offers creative ways to share photos with Elements, including print projects like greeting cards, calendars, and books, emailing photos, and posting them on Facebook and Flickr.